Less weight, less bothersome hot flashes
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From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
A study indicates that women who lose weight can have less trouble with hot flashes. Researchers saw it in six months of data on 338 women with an average age of 53.
Women who did an intensive weight loss program - the kind you might find at a weight loss center - lost about 16 pounds. And they were less likely than women who did not do intensive weight loss to say they were bothered by hot flashes.
At the University of California, San Francisco, researcher Alison Huang:
"If you're a woman who's overweight or obese, and you're bothered by hot flashes, our study shows that you can significantly improve your hot flashes, if you lose weight by diet-exercise." (9 seconds)
The study in Archives of Internal Medicine was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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